Monthly Archives: December 2012

In Nick Clegg’s New Year message he promised that “the Liberal Democrats will continue to anchor this Coalition in the centre ground.” It’s a familiar rhetorical theme that Liberal Democrat and Alliance politicians have wheeled out over the last thirty … Continue reading →

The audience for Two Gallants’ performance in King Tut’s were a literate-looking bunch. Spectacles and beards abounded, as you might expect amongst a group of people who’d come to see a band named after a James Joyce story. The impression … Continue reading →

“It’s like this big fucking hairy ball with rubber bands and staples and snow and it’s rolling down the hill and it’s going to crash into your house.” That’s how Keith Morris of legendary hardcore punk band The Circle Jerks … Continue reading →

Tom Burke of the hotly tipped new indie band Citizens! seems genuinely pleased to be in Glasgow after playing an energetic set in King Tut’s. “There’s a lot of Glasgow heritage in the band in a way. Lawrence’s dad is … Continue reading →

“If you are born you will shit yourself, you will die. That’s the only two things that are for sure.” “You’ll shit yourself?!” So begins one of many exchanges about death during my half hour conversation with Andy LaPlegua – … Continue reading →

It’s ten minutes before Slam are due to go on stage and kick off their tent at T in the Park. I’ve just been ushered into a portakabin behind the tent to talk to Slam’s Stuart MacMillan and Orde Meikle. … Continue reading →

“Their performances will serve to confirm their excellence when we are far enough distanced from the 1980’s to look at the period rationally and other, infinitely better known, bands stand revealed as charlatans” – John Peel on the Nightingales The … Continue reading →